Affliction Warlock: When to play aff, and the do's and don'ts of the spec

Hello and welcome to this short guide covering the strengths and weaknesses of the Affliction Warlock, this guide is written by Luc\u00ee\u00fbs, I stream sometimes on twitch. I also maintain a blog for the affliction spec at https:\/\/legionafflictionwarlock.wordpress.com\r\rFor more Warlock discussion, visit their Class Discord.\r\rWhen you should consider playing the affliction spec\rWhen to Affliction\rAffliction\u2019s strengths in raids are mostly multi-target, especially 3 or more targets, and its mobility is insane compared to Destro or Demo, and most specs in the game. It is a spec that thrives on fights with adds that can give you high stacks of wrath of consumption and reap stacks.\rSome examples of the fights affliction is very good on are: Renferal, the spiders although infrequent provide you with some minor WoC uptime, and the fight has a large amount of moving around. Odyn, While affliction is not that great at runebearer damage if your guild needs it that is; BUT you get WoC stacks from them, and that\u2019s enough to get it close to Destro in phase 1 \/ 2 cleave. It\u2019s got straight up better ST and better mobility for phase 3.\rBut, Afflictions most important strength arguably is Absolute Corruption cheesing. Especially on fights like Dragons \/ Helya are excellent examples of fights for the affliction spec to shine, also AC lets you do ungodly damage to the dragons, and the tentacles (keep in mind that this isn't padding), as both fights have adds that allow you to maintain the 5-stack buff from Wrath of Consumption for a large portion of the fight, both fights also have a decent amount of movement. \r\rNow here's where affliction can fall short\rWeaknesses of the spec\rAffliction is a spec with absolutely Zero burst potential\rThe spec is arguably terrible on target swapping\rWhen running with Soul Effigy builds, the spec feels clunky\rThe spec is far too reliant on 100% uptimes of both the Wrath of Consumption and Reap Soul buffs to deal top end DPS; if a warlock cannot keep these at 100% their damage throughput plummets.\rThe strongest trait on the Artifact by far is Wrath of Consumption by a mile and a half\rThe spec is crippled by RNG, inconsistent damage from pull to pull, and Awkward Soul Shard generation\r\r

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Comentado por Desertcobra

You speak of "Wrath of Corruption" as if it is a spell which you can cast up to 5 stacks. There is no "Wrath of Corruption" spell in the spell book that I can see. "Wrath of Corruption" is only on the Artifact Weapon. Perhaps you mean Unstable Affliction which is a castable spell that can stack 5 times.